NetBeans Project Manager

A Usability Study of the First Prototype

Screenshots

Dirk Ruiz, Jennifer Gove

June 4, 2002

The following set of screenshots show the state of the prototoype as of the usability test.

The Entire IDE

This snapshot shows what the IDE looked like when the participant first saw it.  Click on the image to get a larger version.

The Sample Project

This snapshot shows the sample project, expanded.  Note the Resources node, the Output node and the Java Sources node.

The Java Sources Node

This snapshot shows the Java Sources node, which contains the Java and other source files.  Note the source directory node (src), which contains a package (examples), which in turn contains the Java file HelloWorld.

The Output Node

This snapsot shows the Output node, which contains the compiled classes.  Note the output directory (out), which contains a package directory (examples), which in turn contains the compiled HelloWorld class file.

The Resources Node

This snapshot shows the Resources node, which contains Jar files, classes, or directories.  Note that the Sample Project has been adorned with a Useless Library for purposes of illustration. Useless Library points to useless.jar, which is a physical jar file.